With three kids, a mortgage and $9 in his bank account, Hinely had to get creative. In December when it was cold and the sun would set at 5 oclock Hinely stood on Hard Scrabble Road and hawked the peanuts he had boiled on his stove and in his neighbors turkey cooker.

April 10 (HealthDay News) — Debate about the ideal age to retire has been going on for years. But with the U.S. economy in a dramatic slump, the flip side of that question — how old is too old to work? — has become uppermost in many people’s minds.

In April 2008, a Rasmussen survey found that 73 percent of Americans believed that global warming was at least a somewhat serious problem. In January 2009, only nine months later, they conducted the same poll, asked the same questions and used the same sampling techniques. The percentage had fallen to 64 percent.

reader forwarded me an interesting link from last month in the Los Angeles Times on credit card interest rates, further reinforcing my long-held belief that taking out a credit card is my biggest life mistake.

In 1870, the W.T. Collier family arrived on Marco Island on their sailing schooner, the Robert E. Lee. They were looking for a place to begin a new life and after landing on Marco, W.T., his wife and nine children, built a home, started a business and began a family tradition. The Colliers were the first restaurateurs and innkeepers on Marco Island.